As blended courses gain popularity, the face-to-face portion can benefit from more personalized and interactive learning. This new model integrates social media and mobile devices.

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Participate in the development of a research model to support the National DETA Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

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Interested in program quality? In this three hour hands-on workshop, learn more about the OLC Quality Scorecard for the Administration of Online Programs and consider ways it can be translated/modified/restructured to apply to blended programs on your campus.

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Workshop examines critical factors in sustaining a campus blended learning initiative. Strategic approaches incorporating blended learning meeting mission and goals _ how resources are allocated.

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Online Learning Consortium welcomes attendees to the Blended Learning Conference and Workshops.  OLC will recognize Best-in-Track award winners.

Relay GSE's innovative "design indicators" set a standard for blended design and faculty development. This presentation introduces our indicators, chronicles their rollout, and discuss evaluation.

Despite interest in learner engagement in blended contexts, no theoretical framework guides inquiry or practice. We present a framework and early research testing our model.

Online learning offers opportunities to construct knowledge better with an intentional framework for collaboration among participants. We will model use of online collaboration tools.

This panel of K-12 and higher education editors discuss blended learning research, where the field is going, what's needed, and issues with current research practices.

Attend to learn more about the new VoiceThread! A complete rebuilding of this multi-sensory communication tool has made VoiceThreading faster, more intuitive and easier to integrate with any LMS.

Creating a campus of hybrid and blended learning has grown from 50 students to 600 students with 180 course offerings a semester.

2015 could see the reauthorization of the federal Higher Education Act, which uses federal financial aid regulations to place requirements on institutions. We will begin with an update on what might happen in federal regulations this year. We will also look at a few existing and emerging regulations (academic integrity, fraud, state authorization, accessibility) and how those might affect your academic practices. Hint: If you are following good practices, you are often in compliance anyway.

Are you tired of delivering only asynchronous online courses? Looking to try your hand at a few synchronous solutions?

Online and blended students want more from their class than canned lectures. Join the team from New York University and play with some of the streaming technology that can be easily incorporated into your online or blended class. Technologies to play with will include: LiveStream, Vidyo and even streaming video from Google Glass.

A PowerPoint presentation will illustrate a blended learning model as experienced by K-12 homeschooled students and a homeschooling teacher.

Providing adjunct faculty with online and on campus options for training can increase their comfort level in the classroom and improve the student experience.

This study highlights the use and evaluation of five online learning and presentation tools as part of a move toward blended learning in Communication Studies.

Revive the field trip and discover a way to dissolve the idea that an impermeable border exists between digital and in-person learning environments.

A Presentation On The Development and Implementation of an Enterprise Program Assessment Service, UB's Online Annual Academic Program Assessment

Video Based Tools to Improve Learning Outcomes and Student Engagement by working with teacher, faculty and student existing workflows.

newrow_ will outline how to create an online learning program for the current generation of mobile-first, digital learners by implementing a flex-class program. 

This information session will discuss technological and administrative challenges of teaching online courses for Chinese students who are in China.

See how our institution applied adapted learning software to a blended learning course. Teaching and implementation strategies applied to a blended format will be highlighted.

A theoretical framework is described to strengthen institutional planning for faculty development for blended learning.

Attend this session to hear how online course content helped to substantially improve Introduction to Psychology students' final exam test scores at Northampton Community College.

In this session, explore the political backdrop and structural/institutional influences affecting how the support of blended, hybrid and online learning is happening today.

How exactly do you build community? Learn tips for building and keeping a sense of community at the beginning and though out the semester.

Soomo creates interactive webtexts designed for learning. We work closely with schools to align the text, interpret the analytics, and increase success.

As a cloud based service Schoology goes well beyond the typical expectations of the legacy CMS/LMS. From mapping outcomes and tracking competencies to mastery dashboards and system analytics, Schoology puts actionable data into faculty and advisors hands for informed decisions and interventions. 

This presentation explores institutional experiences of planning and supporting the rollout of iPads for over 1,100 postgraduate students to support their programmes of study.

Need clarity around Personalized Learning, Adaptive Learning and Competency-Based Education? Explore how these models work, and what they can mean to your school and students.

This paper presents a theory to support faculty development for blended learning that differentiates competency-based from more powerful transformative approaches to faculty development.

​A key distinction this presentation will address is the difference between identity authentication and identity verification. In a blended learning scenario, a professor may pass around a roll sheet in class that students sign. This is a very minimalistic and insecure form of identity verification that can be defined as a single factor component that relies on seeing the same person consistently return.​ This analysis will tie in how fraud is affecting higher education and possible reasons why fraud is growing in blended and online programs across the United States and what institutions can do to combat it.​

A brief journey through the development of blended learning in the Department of Statistics at Miami University focusing on challenges, solutions, and lessons learned.

This will demonstrate how in using Canvas, an open source, cloud based LMS, instructors can keep student interaction levels high outside of the blended classroom.

Discover the benefits of using audio and video with international students in online work to replicate the social cues found in a face-to-face classroom.

This presentation provides information about Online Learning Consortium’s workshop program, different learning tracks and workshops, and how OLC can contribute to professional development of individual faculty and institutions.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the OLC Online Teaching Certificates. A comparison of the programs will be available. Bring your questions with you and we will try to answer them for you.

In the last decades, the power of data mining and analytics has transformed practice in field after field. In this talk, I will discuss how this trend is transforming instruction in higher education. Increasingly, large-scale data is available on student learning and interaction online. Much of this data represents student behavior in a fashion that is both longitudinal and fine-grained. This has allowed researchers to model and track many elements of student learning that were not previously feasible at scale: engagement, affect, meta-cognition, collaborative skill, and robust learning. In turn, these models can be used in prediction of long-term student outcomes, and to analyze the factors driving long-term success.

I will illustrate this potential with examples of how our lab has studied engagement and learning in several contexts, including students learning data mining from a MOOC, biology undergraduates learning genetics from intelligent tutoring systems, undergraduates learning how to program, and military cadets and medical residents learning core medical skills. I will discuss how we track disengagement, the processes leading to robust or shallow learning, and the factors leading learners to long-term participation in a community of scientific practice.

Focus on the many transitions that occur throughout the blended learning course. Inject these transitions with teaching presence, effective practices for connectivity and student collaboration.

Online learning students often feel disconnected. However, while using live streaming technology, the remote and on-campus student can be connected like never before.

To share Concordia University, Irvine's rigorous process/project management system for designing high quality, digitally rich course learning environments through collaborative partnerships with faculty.

This panel discussion focuses on effective practices and organizational matrices in higher education institutions that encourage engagement and facilitate blended learning leadership at multiple levels.

Allow individualized student learning and track progress by designing specific Learning Paths for students with different skill level, content interest, or learning style.
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Fuse RI is a statewide, open source model for K-12 blended learning implementation consultation in Rhode Island.

Open to All Attendees: Gain greater insights into the challenges, issues and opportunities you face as leaders in the ever-changing world of online and blended higher education. Join us to share your thoughts, views and experiences. RSVP is requested to reserve your spot.  Space is limited.

Do your eyes glaze over after consuming dozens and dozens of final projects (bet you thought I was going to say donuts!), typically reports or essays submitted by your students at the end of each semester? Your students are probably just as tired of the same old diet.

Participants at this session will try out the recipes for three alternatives to the bland diet we use to have students show and share their knowledge. Digital tools for infographics, brochures, and blogs are often free and easy to use, and they are all excellent ways to add zest to the final project for you and your students. And a well designed assignment will allow them to creatively demonstrate their new knowledge as well.

OperaX is about more than blending a face-to-face course, it's about impacting teaching and social change beyond our MOOC.

Learn how to apply a proven collaborative model to transform “good” blended courses into “quality” courses that are dynamic and cutting edge.

Open access textbooks save money, increase textbook use and effectiveness, and eliminate copyright concerns in the blended classroom.

Advantages of blended learning and difficulties of implementation are discussed.

Everything you need to know as you grow your lecture-capture program from a single building to an entire department, campus or even system. 

Come learn how the OLC Blended Learning Mastery Series can provide you with the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of blended learning models and strategies, while applying these concepts to your own teaching and course development.

Institutions will explain how analytics are being used to establish clear expectations for innovative blended programs, and methods of assessment for continuous improvement.

Sure, sure, flipped classrooms are all the rage. But: are your students engaged and learning? Come learn how to create interactive videos using three applications that, while useful on their own, can combine to make powerful, interrogative lessons.

Got Outreach? Come away with scalable, cost-free, blended content and teaching strategies for building capacity and engaging learners beyond your classroom or campus.

Share your best recipes for creating effective blended learning concoctions that move beyond delivery mode and into the realm of cuisine.

Made up of three K-12 blended learning initiatives- MyBlend (Michigan), Fuse RI (Rhode Island), and IDLA (Idaho)- this panel shares similarities, differences, triumphs, and challenges.

How do universities' institutional decisions encourage or deter different categories of faculty from adopting blended learning?

This presentation proposes the implementation of a blended instruction training workshop for Writing Program instructors in the Department of English at New Mexico State University.

Demonstration of how YouSeeU Adds Value to a Course with Authentic Assessment, Engagement, Coaching and Feedback. 

Explore five free tools to help engage students with their peers, content and instructor.

There is a fee for this Post-Conference Workshop: $200 Early Bird / $225 Full Price / $250 Onsite Price

Mobile apps for tablets, such as the iPad, offer many innovative applications for both teaching and learning, both in the traditional classroom as well as online. But, what happens when you combine a number of apps to create something new? Answer: App Smashing!

Join us as we explore some of the most interesting ways App Smashing is being used to increase teaching effectiveness and encourage deeper learning. We will look at examples from multiple disciplines and apply them to your own, identified teaching needs. Together, we will experiment with different App Smashing “recipes”, adapting them to both group and individual implementation plans. You will leave this workshop with multiple ideas, “recipes” and the confidence to implement them in your own teaching.

Note for workshop attendees:

• This is a “Bring Your Own Tablet” workshop. Please bring a charged iPad or other tablet to the workshop.
• Participants who sign up ahead of time will be contacted with a list of suggested low cost (or free) apps to download ahead of time.
• Post-Conference Workshop Participants are invited to participate in a special Lunch and Learn with the OLC Institute from 12:10pm to 1:15pm. Lunch will be provided.

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In the last decades, the power of data mining and analytics has transformed practice in field after field. In this deep dive session, Ryan Baker will follow up his plenary session by facilitating a discussion focusing on the issues and opportunities that data mining and analytics have introduced in the development of research models and design.